CVE-2025-5531

The Employee Directory – Staff Listing & Team Directory Plugin for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'emd_mb_meta' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 4.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.4 Medium

Status

Deferred - security@wordfence.com

Published

2025-06-04

Last modified

2026-04-08

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Employee Directory Staff Team Directory (Emarket-design)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3295945%40employee-directory&new=32959…
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/143c5f1f-032c-4207-9401-20f18efcad9d?source=cve